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What prevents a man’s speaking good sense with a smile on his face?

Horace

How slight and insignificant is the thing which casts down or restores a mind greedy for praise.
HORACE

Greedy Mind Praise
Punishment follows close on crime.
HORACE

Crime Follow Punishment
In neglected fields the fern grows, which must be cleared out by fire.
HORACE

Fern Field Fire Out
Having no business of his own to attend to, he busies himself with the affairs of others.
HORACE

Affair Business Other People
It is but a poor establishment where there are not many superfluous things which the owner knows not of, and which go to the thieves.
HORACE

Owner Poor Thief
The populace may hiss me, but when I go home and think of my money, I applaud myself.
HORACE

Home May Think
Superfluous words simply spill out when the mind is already full.
HORACE

Mind Spill Superfluous
Rule your mind or it will rule you.
HORACE

Inspirational Life Motivational
Let him who has once perceived how much that, which has been discarded, excels that which he has longed for, return at once, and seek again that which he despised.
HORACE

Discarde Perceive Return
Wherever the storm carries me, I go a willing guest.
HORACE

Guest Storm Willing
Leuconoe, close the book of fate, For troubles are in store, . . . . Live today, tomorrow is not.
HORACE

Book Fate Live Today
I have erected amonument more lasting than bronze.
HORACE

Appreciation Bronze Country People
Half is done when the beginning is done.
HORACE

Country Half Happen People
Joys do not fall to the rich alone; nor has he lived ill of whose birth and death no one took note.
HORACE

Birth Fall Joy Note
He will often have to scratch his head, and bite his nails to the quick. [To succeed he will have to puzzle his brains and work hard.]
HORACE

Brain Hard Work Nail
Do not try to find out – we’re forbidden to know – what end the gods have in store for me, or for you.
HORACE

Destiny End Try

What prevents a man’s speaking good sense with a smile on his face?

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